I wonder if all this killing will ever end. I suppose it won’t. There are way too many sick people out there. Are any of us safe anywhere anymore?
Now we have a shooting in a church of all places. I’m wondering why someone in this latest
event didn’t tackle this guy and not give him time to reload his gun several
times. Yes, it’s dangerous, but there
are brave souls out there too who will take on the crazies. We live in such frightening times.
The scary thing is we probably pass these people every day
and we don’t even know it. How could we
when most of these people look as normal as anyone else. They could exist anywhere and something could
happen at any time in the most unlikely places.
We all need to be as vigilant and aware as we can be of everything
and everyone in our surroundings at all times.
When I was at work yesterday there was a suspicious person hanging
about with a backpack. He was clearly
not a shopper and had no shopping cart.
He lingered in corners pretending to look at merchandise and then made
his way to the meat counter. My first
thought was that he was there to steal something. He kept a tight grip on that backpack as if
it held something valuable, but it looked pretty flat and empty to me.
I couldn’t leave my station so I alerted another employee who
was collecting empty boxes. He sent
management over to talk to me. I have no
idea how this situation turned out. The
man eventually meandered out of my range of sight. I was too busy helping customers to try to
keep an eye on him and find him again. I
did give a full description to management though, so they kept an eye on him, I
hope.
It didn’t occur to me until later that he could have had a
gun in that bag. My gut was telling me
that something was just not right with him.
But more than likely he was a thief.
